The new voice assistants like Siri, Cortana, Alexa, and Google (itself?) are becoming more and more ubiquitous as we race toward a "Star Trek"-style omnipresent computing interface, but what if you don't like invoking the name of your chosen corporate overlord when you use the assistant's features? What if you could speak "Okay, Computer" into an Apple mouse like Scotty did? In this video, I'll show you how to set up a custom wake word with your voice assistant using a platform called "Snowboy".

From here, you're going to use the credentials as well as the project and device IDs created when you first set up the Google AIY kit. Refer to the other guides in this project if you haven't gotten this far yet.

As the script finishes, you will be presented with a unique URL for authentication. Copy that URL into a browser, sign in to Google, copy the authentication code, and paste that at the prompt in the terminal. You can now run Google Assistant via GassistPi which allows intricate customization options as well as custom wake words via Snowboy. Configure these options by using a text editor with ~/GassistPi/src/config.yaml